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Celebrating 30 Years of Caring

Without you, I don’t know where I’d be today … maybe homeless or …dead.” This 20-year old was one of our record 5,143 clients in the past year, a 12 percent increase over the previous year. With our help, clients improved independence, decreased substance abuse, and avoided crisis and hospitalization. These successes resulted from a [...]

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Leadership Tulsa gifts go to clients of all ages

Leadership Tulsa members donated $620 and 200 gifts during their annual holiday party to make Christmas possible for clients of Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma. Many adult gifts were necessities like food, self-care, hygiene and household items. Food will go into blizzard bags for adult housing clients. Donated brooms, mops, towels and cleaning supplies [...]

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CALM Center saves family’s holiday

Solving a family’s transportation dilemma on Thanksgiving eve is only one example of how the CALM Center staff goes the extra mile to bring families back together. Bill (not his real name) was excited about going home from the center on Thanksgiving eve. His family lived out of town so Bill knew it would take [...]

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When all bets are off: Is gambling a problem for you or a loved one? Find out how to identify and stop problem gambling during a presentation at 10-noon, Friday, Nov. 16, Cornerstone Community Center, 5610 S. 41st W. Ave., by Wiley D. Harwell., D.Min., LPC, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Association for Problem & Compulsive Gambling. [...]

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Defusing the Bomb

Parents and caregivers who want to prevent and intervene in children’s behavior before it becomes a crisis can attend a free class entitled “Defusing the Bomb” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wed., Oct. 10, at Cornerstone Community Center, 4122 W. 55th Place in Tulsa. “Behavior is an attempt to meet a need so it [...]

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Run for Mental Health

Support Counseling and Recovery Services when you sign up for the Tulsa Run. We encourage everyone to run for mental health and donate to Counseling & Recovery Services. It’s simple: Register for the Tulsa Run, its fun run or 5K, set for Oct. 27 Donate to Counseling & Recovery Services while registering online Ask friends and [...]

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Wraparound Tulsa works

Alec: From hopeless to hopeful Alec, 17, was given up by his adoptive parents at age 11 and spent the next six years in multiple foster homes. In one home, his arm was broken and $1,000 earned during a summer job was stolen.  Finally, at 17, he left the sixth and final home without a [...]

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Open House Success

Thanks to everyone who came to our Sand Springs location’s open house on Thursday, and to the Sand Springs Chamber of Commerce for the fantastic ribbon cutting ceremony.  We certainly appreciated the beautiful flowers from Coble’s, the plant and welcome banner from Montie Box Realtors and all the well-wishes from the community. For those who [...]

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Substance Abuse certification received

Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma recently received state certification to provide intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment.

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State certified to treat substance abuse

Counseling & Recovery Services of Oklahoma recently received state certification to provide substance abuse treatment, Executive Director Bryan K. Blankenship announced today.

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